SMAK: The Opening

In 1999, I was invited by then Director, Jan Hoet, to re-install my sand work "Failure, Apology and Redemption"(1996), for the opening of the new contemporary art museum, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst or SMAK
in Gent, Belgum.
The Museum owns this work (see 1996) but I thought re-installing exactly as it was originally might be a little boring. I was able to convince Jan Hoet that not only was the work "ephemeral" but it was also "dynamic" in that it could alter slightly each
time it was realized in order to reflect current political or social concerns.
While the written text Apology square section is the same, along with the red wedge Redemption, the circular Failure part has a different central element, a two headed eagle derived from the Serbian national flag.

For the same exhibition, I was also able to realize a new, small work related to the impeachment of Bill Clinton and its relationship to the war in Bosnia.